Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Labour has the UK’s wealthier over-65s in its sights
    • UK universities regulator plans for looming insolvencies
    • Fresh violence flares after dozens of rioters arrested across England
    • Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on sidelines
    • The power of choosing your words wisely
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • Investing in America
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    • US Presidential Election 2024
    Most Read
    • Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on sidelines
    • The power of choosing your words wisely
    • Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
    • Democratic party’s ‘Trump is weird’ strategy rattles Republicans
    • The battle over who makes the rules for US companies
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
    • Widespread boycotts in Muslim countries hammer western brands
    • Novo Nordisk boosts research as rivals challenge weight-loss leader
    • The battle over who makes the rules for US companies
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Lloyds hires Amazon Web Services executive as its new AI chief
    • A rollercoaster earnings season for tech stocks
    • Brain implant made from graphene is set to begin UK clinical trial
    • Elliott says Nvidia is in a ‘bubble’ and AI is ‘overhyped’
    • Bolt promises benefits to gig workers ahead of court battle with union
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Global shares tumble as US recession fears rattle markets
    • Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on sidelines
    • Everyone calm down
    • Rio Tinto-backed start-up seeks funds for lithium breakthrough to cut reliance on China
    • Global stock sell-off deepens after disappointing US jobs data
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • The power of choosing your words wisely
    • Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
    • The volatile far right on UK streets is becoming more difficult to label
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
    • What might a Harris foreign policy look like?
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Tesla attempt to save Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package gets sceptical reception
    • Cities on screen: Choose Edinburgh
    • Bolt promises benefits to gig workers ahead of court battle with union
    • ‘Gone are the days of taking a phone call in the open’: why office pods are everywhere
    • How Roger Federer rode the ‘beautiful wave’ of tennis for 24 years
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • What and how to read
    • One of Scandinavia’s buzziest fashion brands is ready to scale
    • Photobombing de Gaulle: how a forgotten picture rewrites the history of WWII
    • Could music win it for Kamala Harris?
    • The True Story of the Fake Zombies podcast review — how a band came back to life, twice over
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • US
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Tony Barber

European Comment Editor

Tony Barber is European Comment Editor of the Financial Times. He is a former foreign correspondent in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, the former Soviet Union, the US and the former Yugoslavia.

In 2012 he was awarded the Medal of Gratitude by the Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk in recognition of his work in support of freedom and democracy in Poland. He wrote the introduction to Mud Sweeter Than Honey, a book on communist Albania by the author Margo Rejmer.

Email Tony Barber @TonyBarber8  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Media
    Resist ‘fake news’ but don’t exaggerate its power

    One hundred years on, the Zinoviev Letter illustrates how election results have deeper causes than disinformation

    Ben Hickey illustration of a snake wrapped around a pile of newspapers.
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Picking the next pope Premium content

    Vatican-watchers are debating who might succeed Francis at the head of a Catholic Church rife with internal tensions

    Pope Francis attends a special audience with altar servers in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Spiritual struggle or military tourism?

    Two authoritative histories shed modern light on two centuries of medieval crusades

    An image of men on horses fighting
  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
    Europe Express
    Shadows of history on Poland’s foreign policy Premium content

    Relations with Ukraine and Germany are burdened by the past in ways that feed into domestic political disputes

    Donald Tusk speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the Battle of Monte Cassino
  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Europe Express
    The pillars of German security are shaking Premium content

    Political upheavals in France and the US are causing anxiety in Berlin

    French president Emmanuel Macron (L) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz participate in Working Session of the NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Russian politics
    Russian censors itch to trap zombie mice

    The demand to ban a satirical novel underlines the shrinking space for free expression under Putin

    Mouse book cover
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    ObituaryIsmail Kadare
    Ismail Kadare, Albanian author, 1936-2024

    A novelist who survived one of eastern Europe’s most vicious tyrannies and drew comparisons with Kafka and Orwell

    Ismail Kadare
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Viktor Orbán
    Hungary’s presidency is a symptom of deeper EU malaise

    Franco-German frictions and the advance of hard-right parties threaten trouble when Europe needs a common front

    Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    Serbia and Albania: precarious states in a volatile neighbourhood

    Two impressive new histories about the Balkan neighbours show how the traumas of the past have left deep traces in the present

  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    Le pari de la dissolution se retourne contre Emmanuel Macron

    L’extrême droite se rapproche du pouvoir et la gauche radicale évoque l’esprit de 1936, aux dépens du bloc centriste

    «Macron c’est toi qui est ubuesque», dit une pancarte
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    France’s political extremes exploit Macron’s weakness

    The far right scents an opportunity, the left evokes the spirit of 1936 and liberal democracy is squeezed in the middle

    “Macron it is you who is absurd”, a placard held by a protester reads
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: History

    Tony Barber selects his best mid-year reads

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    The EU’s post-elections future Premium content

    Hard choices await the 27-nation bloc over the next five years — and there’s always the risk of an unanticipated emergency

    A crowd holds up Ukrainian flags
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    Meloni’s hard-right bid to shake up the EU Premium content

    The Italian premier wants to upend the centrist consensus in Brussels but economic weakness limits her country’s influence

    Giorgia Meloni speaks via video link at a Vox rally
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    Russia and Ukraine: two economies at war Premium content

    Government reshuffle underlines Putin’s militarisation effort as Kyiv fights on with western support

    A slogan in support of the Russian armed forces reads: ‘Price of Russia! Senior sergeant Sergei Prokofyev’ as an armoured vehicle passes by
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    EU enlargement
    Defiant regional leaders resist the road map to EU membership

    The heads of Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs, North Macedonia and Georgia oppose the steps needed to join the club

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    Pluses and minuses of the EU recovery fund Premium content

    More large-scale investment programmes are possible despite the mixed results of Europe’s post-pandemic plan

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    The First Cold War — when Russia and Britain were at odds

    Barbara Emerson examines how the two countries kept hostilities at bay and warns of the high-handedness of foreign imperialism

  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    Europe Express
    France loses faith in Macron Premium content

    The president’s centrist alliance faces a drubbing in EU elections amid growing pressure on government finances

    Macron at the Sorbonne university
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    German politics
    Scandals hurt the far right less than its opponents hope

    AfD voters like its hardline policies and see the party as a victim of establishment prejudice

    An AfD event on Saturday to kick off the party’s European election campaign
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    Europe’s hard-right parties differ in important ways Premium content

    Hard-right parties in France, Germany and Italy are hungry for success in the EU elections but national differences matter

    Senior AfD politician Maximilian Krah
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    Balkan clouds over EU enlargement Premium content

    Friction between Bulgaria and North Macedonia may be about to take a turn for the worse

    Tens of thousands of people gathered in North Macedonia’s capital Skopje to protest against a French proposal that seeks to end a dispute with Bulgaria that is blocking North Macedonia’s bid to join the EU
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    Nerve-testing times pose question of European nuclear deterrent Premium content

    Amid rising concerns about the US security guarantee, policymakers mull how to ensure the continent’s defence

    Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, one of the UK’s four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    A Nasty Little War — when the west tried to overturn the Russian revolution

    Anna Reid’s vivid history of an ill-judged intervention in 1918 demonstrates that we underestimate Russia at our peril

    A black-and-white photo of troops marching down a street in 1918
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Central Asia
    Terror attack creates a central Asian dilemma for Putin

    Tajiks are among those blamed for the massacre but Russia’s war economy depends on immigrant Muslim workers

    A border crossing point between Kazakhstan and Russia
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT CommunityFT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2024. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:International
UK
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • US
    • US Economy
    • Investing in America
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    • US Presidential Election 2024
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In